JOHN AND DEBBIE ON THE MOVE: Last day in Edinburgh

and we have decided we really like this very liveable city. We have walked its streets, ate delicious food, met wonderful people, seen pretty well the entire Royal family, heard hundreds of pipers playing in a parade, not seen the sun very often and have cheered for Andy Murray in the tennis.

Yesterday we had a wonderful day. William (of the royal kind) was in town with Kate as he was being given Scotland's highest honour, the Order of the Thistle. Him and Her were also here as was Princess Anne. So we went up to St Giles, somehow got ourselves into the front row and saw them all although not very clearly. The best thing though was that they had a big parade of pipers and dancers afterwards down the Royal Mile and that was great.

We have spent the last couple of days seeing those places we hadn't been to. We had a good walk around the New Town, visited places in the Old Town we hadn't spent enough time in eg St Giles where William's investiture was. The Thistle Chapel here is wonderful and the cathedral itself is glorious.

We now have the task of packing for our first flight in a couple of months so it's a bit daunting but I think we have it organised. We fly to Cork tomorrow, pick up a car and drive out to the Dingle Peninsula where we have a little cottage by the sea for a week. We are looking forward to that.